Welcome to the APME Memphis 2025 conference. Here, you’ll be able to register for the conference and update your Sched profile. The conference schedule will be available in late spring 2025. At that time, you can view the schedule and select the presentations you’d like to attend. If you have any questions, please visit our conference website or contact us at conference@popularmusiceducation.org We look forward to coming together as a community June 4–7, 2025.
It is widely acknowledged that artificial intelligence (AI) is “the most outstanding and strategic technology for the 21st century” (EC, 2018). In music making and education, AI is still in an embryonic state, with both enthusiastic adopters and resistant detractors. However, as educators, it is crucial to understand this new technology and its ramifications for current and future generations of musicians. Dr. Tom Collins and Dr. Raina Murnak received a grant in 2023 to deal with these issues. In this presentation, we will introduce some of the key issues facing both educators, students, and music creators and discuss a project called CHAI (Concerts with Humans and Artificial Intelligence). The CHAI project’s elements include instruction of AI tools, measurements of student self-efficacy and affect, co-created AI composition and performance, research papers on new platforms for co-created music, work with external artists, the creation of a curriculum, and a collegiate ensemble. Our stakeholders consist of differing demographics of musicians including middle and high school, collegiate, and professional. We will give a brief overview of the tools used in this project including stem splitting, voice emulation, beat generation, lyric generation, and text to audio and describe some of the activities with which our cohorts are engaged.
